Windows Server 2012 R2 Archives - Sysadmins of the North

KMS Migration from 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012 R2 and KMS Activation Known Issues

2 June 2016
/ Windows Server
/ By Jan Reilink
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How to migratie an Windows Server 2008 R2 KMS to Windows Server 2012 R2, for volume activation of Microsoft products? On a new KMS server? You don’t, apparently there is no Windows Server 2008 (R2) KMS to Windows Server 2012 R2 migration. There is no way to automatically transfer your KMS role along with the products its activating to another server. Luckily Charity Shelbourne wrote up a handy how to for this task.

DHCP on Windows Server 2012 using 169.254.xx.xx as server name

12 December 2014
/ Windows Server
/ By Jan Reilink
/ 8 COMMENTS
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Problem: after installing a new Windows Server 2012 R2 machine with the DHCP role enabled, adding a DHCP server used a 169.254.x.x IP address as server name. Instead of the servers hostname…

“A domain rename operation is already in progress”

26 November 2014
/ Windows Server
/ By Jan Reilink
/ 4 COMMENTS
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When promoting a Windows Server 2012 R2 to a Domain Controller failed…

The other day, when I attempted to add a newly installed Active Directory to become the slave domain controller of a master, the error message “A domain rename operation is already in progress” was displayed. Promoting the Windows Server 2012 R2 server to a Domain Controller failed.